{"slug":"validator-yield","title":"Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains","subtitle":"Median validator net yield (APR multiplied by uptime) in basis points across 7 PoS chains. Solana top 200 by stake, Ethereum network-average consensus APR, Hyperliquid active set, Cardano top 50 pools, Sui active validators, Cosmos Hub top 200, Avalanche P-Chain top 100.","category":"Blockchains","metric":"Net yield","unit":"bps","status":"live","higherIsBetter":true,"filters":null,"value":977.13,"leader":{"name":"Cosmos Hub","slug":"cosmos-hub","value":977.13},"leaders":[{"name":"Cosmos Hub","slug":"cosmos-hub","value":977.13}],"rankings":[{"name":"Cosmos Hub","slug":"cosmos-hub","ms":{"p50":977.13,"p90":981.913,"p99":989.017,"mean":933.534},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":180},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche","ms":{"p50":679.496,"p90":827.277,"p99":832.979,"mean":468.253},"successRate":99.2505,"sampleSize":100},{"name":"Cardano","slug":"cardano","ms":{"p50":495,"p90":500,"p99":500,"mean":456.494},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":50},{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","ms":{"p50":475.476,"p90":511,"p99":536.012,"mean":270.965},"successRate":94.3952,"sampleSize":200},{"name":"Ethereum","slug":"ethereum","ms":{"p50":251.111,"p90":251.111,"p99":251.111,"mean":251.111},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1},{"name":"Hyperliquid","slug":"hyperliquid","ms":{"p50":216.468,"p90":221.824,"p99":223.163,"mean":170.563},"successRate":78.3784,"sampleSize":35}],"sparkline":[978.138,978.138,978.137,978.136,978.136,978.135,978.135,978.133,978.129,978.129,978.126,978.126,978.117,978.116,978.115,978.114,978.108,978.107,978.103,978.169,978.169,978.186,978.186,978.189,978.186,978.176,978.173,978.17,978.137,978.133,978.13,978.128,978.126,978.125,978.104,978.102,978.101,978.103,978.105,978.056,978.042,978.042,978.041,978.041,978.041,978.038,978.039,978.034,977.27,977.27,977.27,977.272,977.269,977.27,977.268,977.263,977.263,977.262,977.262,977.271,977.263,977.263,977.265,977.261,977.26,977.26,977.259,977.247,977.238,977.125,977.125,977.124,977.13],"sampleSize":566,"asOf":"2026-10-26T03:08:18.051Z","freshness":{"asOf":"2026-10-26T03:08:18.051Z","ageHours":0.1,"stale":false},"measured":6,"ranked":6,"headline":"Cosmos Hub leads net yield at 9.77% (24h avg) across 6 ranked chains.","quote":"Cosmos Hub leads net yield at 9.77% (24h avg) across 6 ranked chains. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains\". Retrieved 2026-10-26. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_validator_yield,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-10-26}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield\r\nY2  - 2026-10-26\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/validator-yield","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/validator-yield","methodology":["Sources. Solana primary: `GET api.stakewiz.com/validators` (free, no key). `total_apy` already includes inflation + Jito MEV tips. Solana enrichment: `GET kobe.mainnet.jito.network/api/v1/validators` for MEV-share split. Hyperliquid: `POST api.hyperliquid.xyz/info {type:validatorSummaries}`, field `predictedApr.day` × `uptimeFraction`. Prices: CoinGecko (SOL/USD), Hyperliquid `metaAndAssetCtxs` (HYPE/USD).","Cadence. 5-minute scrape interval per chain. Validator-level metrics (APR, commission, uptime, stake) move on epoch boundaries (~2 days on Solana, ~30 seconds on Hyperliquid), so sub-minute polling would add Prom cardinality cost without information.","Net yield formula. `net_yield_bps = gross_apr_bps × uptime_fraction`. Slashing is treated as negligible in v1, Solana has never slashed in production, and Hyperliquid's jailed-validator state is surfaced as `ocb_validator_jailed{chain, validator}=1` separately rather than amortised into the APR. Both chains report APR (simple yield), not APY (compounded); the bench reports APR-as-bps to match what the upstream APIs publish, no compounding adjustment applied.","Cap. Solana exposes ~3000 active validators across the full set; the bench caps to the top 200 by `activated_stake` (USD-weighted) to keep Prom cardinality at ~230 series total across the two chains. The top 200 represent ~90% of staked SOL by value, so the median is representative of where real stake sits, not of the long tail of <1k SOL validators. Hyperliquid exposes ~30 active validators total, all are tracked.","Median (chain-level headline). `ocb_chain_median_net_yield_bps{chain}` is computed harness-side over the per-validator gauges every scrape, not derived from Prom. This includes the ~42 Solana validators currently at 0% APY (commission 100% or no leader slots), which materially pulls the Solana median down vs the modal active-validator yield. A reader who wants 'yield I would get if I picked a sane validator' should look at p75 or higher on the Solana distribution, not the chain median.","MEV treatment. Solana: MEV tips from Jito are already folded into Stakewiz `total_apy`. `ocb_validator_mev_share_bps` is exposed for transparency (a reader sees 'Helius APR 600 bps of which 80 bps MEV') but NOT subtracted to produce a 'staking-only' figure. Hyperliquid: no separate MEV layer (centralised sequencer captures order-flow value at the protocol level), so the MEV gauge is 0 by convention.","Ethereum. Source: `GET ultrasound.money/api/v2/fees/effective-balance-sum` (free, no key), live total beacon-chain effective balance. APR = 64 × epochs_per_year / sqrt(total_gwei), the consensus spec reward formula at 100% participation (realized ~99.5%, under 2 bps of drift). One network-average series: consensus rewards are uniform per 32 ETH increment, so the average equals the solo validator nominal APR. Execution tips and MEV excluded. Price: CoinGecko (ETH/USD).","Jailed / inactive handling. Hyperliquid: `jailed=1` validators (currently 4) land in the dataset with `predictedApr=0`, so `net_yield_bps=0`. Solana: ~42 validators report `total_apy=0`. Live data shows two causes: commission 100% (operator routes everything to themselves, delegators get 0) or zero leader slots this epoch (no block-production rewards). Both legitimate transient states, both count toward total + median.","Excluded by design. Per-validator Ethereum gauges (~1M indices; beacon-node ingestion, v2). Ethereum execution tips + MEV (per-relay MEV-Boost scraping needed; published figure is consensus only). Lido/RocketPool/Coinbase are products with fees, not validator yields (separate bench). Polkadot v2. Cosmos Hub, Avalanche, Cardano, Sui now tracked."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}